1962

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE - PART 2 * JIMMY SMITH AND THE BIG BAND * H M V VERVE 1025 * UK 

This was the record that introduced the organ player Jimmy Smith to the Modernists in Southern England and  for them, established, above the guitar (never an icon of Modernists or Mod's) and the saxophone, the electric organ as the hippest of musical instruments. The music was written by Elmer Bernstein for the 1962 film of the same name.


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